Comparison

Stop Doomscrolling vs DetoxBrain

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Stop Doomscrolling

This app helps you reclaim your time by blocking distracting applications and tracking your screen usage. It offers daily limits, a brain health score, and digital detox challenges to build better habits and improve focus.

Highlights
  • Block distracting apps
  • Track screen time with analytics
  • Set daily usage limits
  • Brain health score
  • 7-day digital detox challenges
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Fight Brainrot. Reclaim Your Life. You pick up your phone for "just one second" - and 45 minutes vanish. Modern life keeps your brain in a constant loop of scrolling, notifications, and noise. Derot gives you a calm space, clear boundaries for distracting apps, and a chance to breathe again. Take control with proactive app blocking based on usage time, app opens, or fixed hours. WHAT YOU GET: - Block Distractions: Block selected apps such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and games, where supported by your device - Track Screen Time: See where your time goes with easy-to-read usage analytics - Set Daily Limits: Choose your usage-time limits, get gentle reminders, and stay on track - Limit App Opens: Set a limit on how many times you open an app, not how often you unlock your phone - Schedule Focus Time: Block apps during fixed time windows you choose - Brain Health Score: Get an overview of your phone habits with a score for motivation, not a clinical assessment - 7-Day Digital Detox: Build streaks, earn rewards, and stay engaged with daily challenges - Progress Tracking: See your improvement day by day, week by week - Supportive Habits: Add meaningful activities alongside app blocking to spend less time scrolling WHY DEROT? Screen time data is a start. Derot helps you turn awareness into action by combining app blocking, usage tracking, and daily challenges. Set rules around usage time, app opens, or scheduled hours to reduce distractions and feel more present. Habits and rewards provide extra motivation; completing habits is not a requirement for unlocking apps or gaining more screen time. REAL RESULTS: - Users reduce screen time by an average of 2+ hours daily - 94% of users feel less distracted after one week - Build lasting habits with daily streaks and challenges PRIVATE & SECURE: - No account required - Much of your data, including habit logs and app blocking selections, is stored locally on your device - We do not sell your personal data - Usage, device, purchase, and diagnostic data may be processed as described in our Privacy Policy Stop scrolling. Start living. Download Derot and take back control of your time today. Website: https://getderot.com Terms of Service: https://getderot.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://getderot.com/policy

About

DetoxBrain

This app helps you regain control of your digital habits by blocking distracting applications and setting screen time limits. It offers focus sessions, detailed insights into your usage, and privacy-focused architecture that keeps your data on your device.

Highlights
  • Block distracting apps with enforced system-level blocking
  • Set daily time and open-count limits per app
  • Recurring schedules for bedtime, work, and mornings
  • Timed sessions with growing delays before app access
  • Focus sessions for uninterrupted work or study
  • Detailed usage insights and streaks
  • Privacy-first architecture with data stored locally
Features
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You didn't mean to spend two hours on that app. DetoxBrain puts a moment of friction between the reflex and the scroll — and makes blocking that actually holds. 1. Block distracting apps - Pick the apps that pull you in. DetoxBrain shields them — enforced by your phone's own system, so it works even when DetoxBrain isn't open, even offline, even after a restart. - Multiple independent block groups: your bedtime rules don't have to fight your work rules. - A "Fix blocking" button and self-healing shields, because a blocker that silently stops blocking is worse than no blocker. 2. Screen-time limits that fit a real life - Daily time budgets per app, plus open-count limits — for the apps you don't spend long in, you just open forty times. - Recurring schedules: bedtime, mornings, work hours. - A pause and an intention prompt before you go in, with a delay that grows as the day's opens add up: 10 seconds, then 30, then a minute. - Need in anyway? Take a timed session — 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes — and it re-locks itself. A decision, not a slip. 3. Focus sessions - Start a 25, 50, or custom-length session. Your blocked apps stay blocked; the timer keeps running in the background. - Finish, and your streak grows. 4. Insights & streaks — free, all of it - Today's total, per-app breakdown, pickups, yesterday's comparison, a 7-day chart, a calendar heatmap. - Distraction-only mode: only the apps you chose count. Maps, music and messages don't get held against you. - A brain-health score with real long-term progression — yesterday's discipline doesn't get erased overnight. 5. Private by default — not as a promise, as an architecture Your usage data never leaves your device. Not "we don't look at it" — we can't. Apple's Screen Time framework confines your screen-time data to a sandbox on your phone, and we built no server that could receive it. Your app list, your blocklist, how long you spend where: all of it stays on the device. Nothing to sell, nothing to leak. No account required to use any of it. 6. Premium The free tier is meant to be genuinely useful — full stats, three blocked apps, the friction layer, streaks, and your emergency pass are free forever. Upgrade for: - Block as many apps as you want, organized into separate groups — and block a whole category, like Social, in one tap - Strict mode: once a focus session starts, you can't switch it off from inside the app. Your weekly emergency pass still works, and "Remove all shields" is always there — it just takes two hours to land. - Custom shield screens - Detailed weekly insights Monthly, annual (with a 7-day free trial) and lifetime plans. No full-screen ads, ever — an app about protecting your attention has no business interrupting it. 7. There's always a way out An emergency pass, once a week. A "Reset all shields" button that's never behind a paywall. If your subscription lapses, everything you set up keeps running exactly as it was — nothing is switched off, nothing is deleted. To change it you'd come back to Premium or trim down to the free tier, but the way out is never for sale. Getting locked out of your own phone is a bug, not a feature. Built with care by a solo developer in Hanoi. Email me — I actually reply: support@detoxbrain.web.app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Stop Doomscrolling4 screens
DetoxBrain4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: DetoxBrain at 19 against Stop Doomscrolling's 1. Stop Doomscrolling's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Stop Doomscrolling sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and DetoxBrain sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stop Doomscrolling holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DetoxBrain has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stop Doomscrolling ships an update every 5 days, DetoxBrain every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Stop Doomscrolling versus DetoxBrain: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStop DoomscrollingDetoxBrain
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (19 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings119 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnh NguyenDuc Hoan Nguyen

Customer experience

Stop Doomscrolling

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DetoxBrain

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Stop Doomscrolling

Subscriptions4
  • Derot Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Derot Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Derot Annual Subscription7 Days trial$59.991 Year
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  • Derot Annual Subscription1 Year trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Derot Lifetime$99.99
4 purchases

DetoxBrain

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Premium Lifetime$69.99
  • Premium Lifetime$119.99

Questions

Is Stop Doomscrolling free?
Stop Doomscrolling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DetoxBrain free?
DetoxBrain is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stop Doomscrolling or DetoxBrain?
Stop Doomscrolling is rated higher. Stop Doomscrolling averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while DetoxBrain averages 4.8 from 19 ratings.
Do Stop Doomscrolling or DetoxBrain have ads?
Neither Stop Doomscrolling nor DetoxBrain shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stop Doomscrolling or DetoxBrain?
Stop Doomscrolling ships an update every 5 days, and DetoxBrain every 2 weeks. Most recently, Stop Doomscrolling was updated on November 10, 2026 and DetoxBrain on November 5, 2026.

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